4.1.1.4. “an activity that involves the making of things” (Anonymous, 2000)

4.1.1.5. "Technology represents the combination of human understanding of natural laws and phenomena accumulated since ancient times to make things that fulfil our needs and desires or that perform certain functions (Karatsu, 1990). In other words, technology has to create things that benefit human beings." (Li-Hua, 2007)

4.1.1.6. Technology is

4.1.1.6.1. Things

4.1.1.6.2. Processes

4.1.1.6.3. Creations

4.1.1.6.4. Harnessed

4.2. What has changed

4.2.1. Not just

4.2.1.1. Also a process

4.2.1.2. More than Kays says things that were invented after I was born (Greenlish, 2013)

4.3. Conclusion

4.3.1. Technology is hard to define simply because the way individuals give meaning to technology varies considerably. We cannot just look at technology as a 'thing' because it is has intense power over people and changes lives on a daily basis. Technology is an experience which, once we come into contact with it (which we all do), can mean very opposite things.

4.3.1.1. "Technology includes more than machines, processes and inventions." (Li-Hua, 2007)